Hello OF Team, I have been using the experimental version of Arena Mobile after a colleague referred me to it and very much enjoy it. While the standard version of the app is good, I find the experimental version to be a bit faster and with improved look and better tactile useability. Thank you for all your work on the standard and experimental versions of the mobile application! Bryant |
Hello OF team, In the same direction as Bryant, I would like to contribute that our experience with both APPs is similar, the official one is a good tool but the experimental version is more intuitive and agile, in fact for our field work we are using the experimental version of Arena Mobile. Good job to the entire team! Oscar |
Dear Arena Mobile colleagues, I just checked on the updated versions of these two apps; I noticed that you have implemented the multiple lines in both, which is great. I captured test data without trouble in both. In the past I had some issues with image collection when using Arena Mobile (not Arena Experiment), but this time both worked perfectly. My main problem with Arena Mobile is something I have already mentioned regarding the 'bottom' box of the screen. It is not really useful to me, and it occupies a disproportionate part of the screen. So basically, I minimize it always. But even if I minimize it in the root, later when I enter lower level entries, it goes back to extended, and so I have to minimize it again, which is a significant loss of time. |
Dear Open Foris Team, My team similarly found that the AM app became slow when inputting larger volumes of data. I don't remember exactly how many trees (but imagine as we neared 100 trees in a plot), or neared the end of the 30 vegetation quadrats surveyed (each with multiple entities in tables. We used both an Android and Apple device. At first I thought it was the device needing to be updated, but this problem completely cleared up when I found the AM Experiments app. My team immediately found the Experiments app to be more intuitive and have better data visualization while inputting information into the app, so we continued to use this for the remainder of our field season. My team used two devices simultaneously to gather data at each plot, so I was very excited to see there is now an option in the latest version of Experiments to merge the data from both devices into a single record. This feature has greatly enhanced my workflow and organization of our data. Thank you for continuing to enhance and experiment with features that make these apps more useful for our work! |
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Dear Bryant, Dear Stefano, please, does the evaluation "again and again" holds also for validations? We have a complex expression calculating horizontal distance of the tree. If the tree is out of 40x40m square, it triggers error. But maybe it is re-evaluated for all trees when adding a new one? So app is working slower and slower? As reported https://openforis.support/questions/4038/arena-mobile-experiments/4067? |
Dear users, Reguarding the merge feature server side, we are still working on it and it should be ready in September 2024. If you still find issues on Arena Mobile, please open a new thread about that and keep this one only to talk about differences between Arena Mobile and Arena Mobile Experiments, especially about features you would like to see in the official app. Many thanks, |